Thomas County cat. [volume] (Colby, Kan.) 1885-1891, 1887-08-04
ITEMS ABOUT WOMEN.

ITEMS ABOUT WOMEN.
MARYM Bowman is editor and pro
prietor of the Abilene Chronicle. q new
Kansas weekly political paper.
CLARA C. AUSTIN. NJ. D.. was del
egate to the National College OF Phar-
macy held at Saratoga, June "a.
Miss AMELIE RIvEs will probably
spend two or three weeks at Newport,
this summer, and the rest OF the time
in her old Virginia home.
Mrs. JAMES H. EARLE, Superintend-
ent of the Sabbath Observance De-
partment, of the Massachusetts, W. c.
T. u, has published a leafiet on Sun
day Newspapers"
Miss HELEN MAGILL has resigned her
position in the Bridgewater Institute.
to take the professorship of Greek and
Latin in the new WOman's College, ut
Princeton. New Jersey.
Miss CLARA NJ FOWLER will present
to the city of Concord. n. H., build
ing for a free public library, in
memory of her parents, the late Judge
and Mrs. Asa Fowler.
Miss LUELLA VARNEY. of Cleveland,
is rising sculptor. She has recently
finished bust of Bishop Gilmore. of
that city, which exhibits much force,
and is a striking likeness.
Miss ALICE FREEMAN, President of
Wellesley College, has received $50 ap-
plications from young women wishing
to enter WELLESLEY next year. There
are only 100 places possible ut present.
Miss GRACE HOWARD has gone to
the Crow Creek Agency in Dakota,
where she will fulfill two-years' mis-
sion as instructor of the Indians. A
schOol-house will be erected there and
a school established.
Mrs. A. X. T. R. CAREY has in
vented a very simple cover for tum-
blcv or jars. 1t is made of n tough
paper. neatly printed, with space left
for marking the variety or date of
making, and fastens securely at once.
FRANCES E. WILLARD has gone to
Manitoba to attend a w. c. T. U.
Convention. She will stop in Bis
marck. d. T., and take in many outly-
ing towns, everywhere carrying the
good gospel of the ballot for women as
the best temperance measure.
RUTH E WILSON, of Brooklyn. N,
Y, has patented an illuminated
flower-piece." The invention consists
in providing the piece with reflector
in keeping with the design, with jets
of light introduced before the reflector.
in such way that air-chambers inter-
vene between the flame and the flow
ers.
Lillian WHITING says: 1.-THE time
has almost gone by for the discussion
of whether women want or do not
want the ballot. They will have it
whether they desire it or not. And
the true wisdom is to study to find
how to use this extensions Of power.
that is sure to come in the near
future (2)".
Miss LUCY LARcOM seldom makes
plans for any thing; when she says to
herself that she will write something.
she is pretty sure not to do it; and she
seldom knows where she is going till
she starts. Her usual summer resorts
are Center Harbor and Gn August and
September) the higher White Mount
ain regions She is not now engaged
upon any connected work. but will
probably write some verses or sketches
or both-before the summer is over.
Mrs. MARY VIRGINIA TERHUNR
('.Marion Harland'' has gone. With
her family to- Sunnybank. on Lake
Ramapo, Northern New Jersey. Such
leisure as she can get she will devote
to novel which she has been trying
for six years to find time to write DR..
Terhune will pass some weeks in the
Adifondacks; and beth he and his wife
will accept the hospitality Of friend
who has country seat on Lake VIM
ncpiseogee. for a week in August